Simon Edmonds

Looks lovely.

Scotland were superb, France rallied but far too late 👏👏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Whenever the commentator calls Menoncello all I ever hear is Lemoncello 🍋
#sixnations #ITAvENG

Book called The Rose of the Meritocracy 1870-2033 by Michael Young.

Book originally in Somerset Library but now also in Dorset Library System.

This has probably been in the Somerset and Dorset Library system since published in 1958.
The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033; Michael Young.
Here goes, recommended reading by Olaf Scholz on the @therestpolitics.bsky.social podcast.
#lovethelibrary

Wonder which fool paid for this Farage all expenses trip to Mar-a-la-la-land.
Also wonder if the Clacton electorate will actually re-elect him since he’s clearly taking them for fools!

Ooooh Peony, nice.

Those schnapps/grappa shots, always deadly !

Open for a few days here 😂 this was Swanage last week.

Iran war latest: Donald Trump says Iran will be 'hit very hard' - as Ben Stiller hits out at White House 'propaganda' video Donald Trump's demand for "unconditional surrender" has been labelled by Iran's president as a "dream that they should take to their grave". Follow updates below - and watch our military analyst Micha...

Apparently we may send HMS Prince of Wales to the Gulf, it was always said one carrier would be in maintenance then the other would be at readiness. The UK still looks slow and flat footed in its defensive response.

news.sky.com/story/iran-l...

They are siding with the 22% of the country that support this war but of course believe its really 80% that support them, because they think that should be the poll result.

Governments are always unwise to pledge to do things that lie outside their control.

She really is delusional. Presumably that’s why inflation will be over when Trump says so; why he is exonerated in Epstein crimes because he says so; tariffs are great because he says so……delusional

Definite result !

Have the stand mixer, with food processor and liquidiser, can’t find the pasta attachment but no recipe book. 😳

Iran Crisis: They Wanted Sovereignty. Just Not Like This If anyone has ruined the special relationship, it's not Starmer- it's Trump

No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.

Latest substack from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Politico’s description of Speaker Johnson as “the star attraction” did make me laugh out loud LOL 😜

BBC Two - Europe on the Edge with Katya Adler Katya Adler travels around European countries to see what the political future holds.

Big shout out to BBC Katya Adler for her programmes on the The Balkans: Europe’s Forgotten Frontier and Europe on the Edge. Great journalism and episodes.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide Figure far below expectations comes as doubts persist over labour market strength

Bigly, very bigly loss of jobs in USA. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

www.ft.com/content/6542... US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide

Brilliant from Banx in @financialtimes.com

The irony of the mighty USA needing help from Ukraine. Zelenskyy has no option but he must be tempted to lecture Trump and Vance.

The paucity of military equipment, ships, planes, helicopters etc should worry everyone. Successive Govts and HM Treasury have hollowed out our defence capability completely with no plan to recover our defence forces and capability.

every single macro-type person i've spoken to this week has been very much in the 'ah it'll blow over' camp

i don't understand why, but this is the consensus

Anyone heard from the Board of Peace recently, maybe from Tony Blair ?
No, didn’t think so.

Just on @skynewsrss.bsky.social the Trump Golf Course in the Gulf has been targeted by Iran and closed, this will infuriate Trump, and the majority of flights leaving Oman are private jets.

Russia sending election operatives to Hungary to prop up Orban, media reports Sergei Kiriyenko, a powerful Kremlin aide, has reportedly been tasked with overseeing the Russian operation in Hungary, applying the same set of methods deployed during Moscow-backed meddling in Moldo...

Russia is sending election operatives to Hungary to prop up Orban. The dirty tricks to support Putin’s puppet in the EU will be off the chart.

Lovely voice and great video 👏

Bondi past it a long time ago, only there as a shield for Trump. But really his whole Cabinet.

You obviously have a very cool Vespa garage somewhere, presumably with a cool coffee machine and a fridge for the Alkoholfrei and milk.

We wanted the birthday 🎂 cake photos !

No chance for one when we moved to Dorset so we still travel back to Hampshire to our existing dentist. Other things like podiatry have also left NHS, there's probably a long list somewhere that is now only private.